It is said that each of us marches to the beat of a different drum, but new Stanford University research suggests that brain cells need to follow specific rhythms that must be kept for proper brain functioning. These rhythms don’t appear to be working correctly in such diseases as schizophrenia and autism.

Tagged: Health Research, optogenics, Human Health, Engineering, Medicine

Founded by students in 1990, the Arbor Free Clinic provides free care to underserved patients every Sunday at the Menlo Park VA Hospital. Under the supervision of faculty volunteers, students see patients with a range of acute and chronic illnesses, diagnosing, determining treatment and making referrals to other facilities as needed.

Tagged: Human Health, Medicine

The director of stem cell research at the Stanford University School of Medicine says he is troubled by draft guidelines issued today by the National Institutes of Health that would prohibit federal funding for research on stem cell lines created through a technique sometimes referred to as “therapeutic cloning” or somatic cell nuclear transfer.

Tagged: stem cells, Human Health, Medicine

Health Web sites that tell teens about sex are often riddled with errors and omissions, according to new research from Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital and the Stanford University School of Medicine.

Tagged: Human Health, Medicine

Molecules assumed to be in the exclusive employ of the immune system have been caught moonlighting in the brain—with a job description apparently quite distinct from their role in immunity.

Tagged: Health Research, neurobiology, Human Health, Medicine

In a new study Stanford researchers used light to illuminate how deep-brain stimulation treats Parkinson's disease symptoms, generating surprising insights into the diseased circuitry and also suggesting new ideas to improve Parkinson’s therapy.

Tagged: Health Research, Parkinson's, Human Health, Engineering, Medicine

During in vitro fertilization, the quality of the egg is often the single greatest factor in the viability of the embryo, yet fertility experts lack a good method for assessing the eggs. Recent research highlights a way to profile the eggs to determine which are more likely to result in pregnancies.

 

 

Tagged: infertility, Human Health, Medicine

The President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, the ambitious U.S. government program begun in 2003, has cut the death toll from HIV/AIDS through 2007 by more than 10 percent in targeted countries in Africa, though it has had no appreciable effect on prevalence of the disease in those nations.

Tagged: aids, Human Health, Medicine

Stanford's Presidential Fund for Innovation in International Studies has made grants to five new interdisciplinary faculty projects.  The projects will examine China's environmental protection efforts, investigate ties between climate change and civil conflict in poor countries, fight the effects of anemia on the academic performance of Chinese children, develop curriculum units on infectious pandemic diseases, and study the effects of international migration on human well-being.

Tagged: International Initiative, International Issues, Earth Sciences, Education, Engineering, Humanities & Sciences, Law, Medicine

Each year, diarrhea kills an estimated 1.8 million people worldwide. Stanford researchers are working with Tanzanians to find a solution.

Tagged: Environmental Research, Environment & Sustainability, Human Health, Engineering, Medicine